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Acting
Birthday
August 4, 1913
Died
December 31, 1996
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Wesley Addy
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Biography
Wesley Addy (August 4, 1913 – December 31, 1996) was an American actor. He played many roles on the Broadway stage, including several Shakespearean ones, usually opposite actor Maurice Evans. After playing two roles in one of Evans's productions of Hamlet, he played Horatio opposite Evans's Hamlet in a 1953 Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of the work, the most prestigious American production of the play seen on TV up to that time. Also on television he played roles on The Edge of Night in the 1950s. Later, during the 1970s-1980s, he played publisher Bill Woodard on Ryan's Hope and patriarch Cabot Alden on the Agnes Nixon-Douglas Marland serial Loving. In motion pictures, Addy's career spanned four decades. Robert Aldrich used him as supporting actor in several pictures, such as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife (both 1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) and The Grissom Gang (1971). In 1976, Addy appeared in Paddy Chayefsky's Network, directed by Sidney Lumet. They would work together again in The Verdict., in which Addy played a doctor who nearly derails Paul Newman's case against a hospital for malpractice. Another of Addy's best-remembered roles was that of Lt. Cdr. Alvin Kramer, who unsuccessfully tries to warn American officials of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor in Tora! Tora! Tora!. Addy was born as Robert Wesley Addy in Omaha, Nebraska and died in Danbury, Connecticut. He was married to actress Celeste Holm from 1961 until his death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Addy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Ed Rhodes
A Modern Affair
1996
5.9
Judge Grady
Before and After
1996
8.0
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
Hiroshima
1995
8.0
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
Hiroshima
1995
5.5
Dr. Tarrant
The Bostonians
1984
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Cabot Alden
Loving
1983
5.5
Abner Parker
Rage of Angels
1983
7.0
Abner Parker
Rage of Angels
1983
7.4
Dr. Towler
The Verdict
1982
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Connecticut Minister
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981
Credits
A Modern Affair
as Ed Rhodes
1996
5.0
Before and After
as Judge Grady
1996
5.9
Hiroshima
as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
1995
8.0
Hiroshima
as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
1995
8.0
The Bostonians
as Dr. Tarrant
1984
5.5
Loving
as Cabot Alden
1983
0.0
Rage of Angels
as Abner Parker
1983
5.5
Rage of Angels
as Abner Parker
1983
7.0
The Verdict
as Dr. Towler
1982
7.4
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
as Connecticut Minister
1981
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The Europeans
as Mr. Wentworth
1979
5.4
Tail Gunner Joe
as Middleton
1977
6.0
The Andros Targets
as General Graves
1977
5.0
Network
as Nelson Chaney
1976
7.8
The Adams Chronicles
as Andrew Jackson
1976
7.2
The Rockford Files
as Agent Steiner
1974
7.5
The Grissom Gang
as John P. Blandish
1971
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer
1970
7.1
Medical Center
1969
6.1
Ironside
1967
6.8
The Invaders
as Tomkins
1967
6.8
Seconds
as John
1966
7.3
The Rat Patrol
as Colonel Leske
1966
7.2
Mister Buddwing
as Dice Player
1966
5.9
The F.B.I.
as U.S. Attorney Cline
1965
5.5
The F.B.I.
as Goulding
1965
5.5
The F.B.I.
as Jock Mitchell
1965
5.5
The F.B.I.
as Carl Torrance
1965
5.5
I Spy
as Hubbard
1965
6.3
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Sheriff Standish
1964
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Profiles in Courage
as Hellinger
1964
5.0
4 for Texas
as Winthrop Trowbridge
1963
5.1
The Fugitive
as Homer Price
1963
7.2
The Outer Limits
as Dr. Rahm
1963
7.8
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Marty McDonald
1962
7.9
The Defenders
as Dr. Simons
1961
6.2
John Brown's Raid
as Col. Lewis Washington
1960
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Ten Seconds to Hell
as Wolfgang Sulke
1959
6.1
Perry Mason
as Alton Brent
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Joachim DeVry
1957
7.7
The Garment Jungle
as Mr. Paul
1957
6.4
The Edge of Night
1956
6.1
Time Table
as Dr. Paul Brucker
1956
5.8
The Big Knife
as Horatio "Hank" Teagle
1955
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Kiss Me Deadly
as Lt. Pat Murphy
1955
7.2
King Lear
as King of France
1953
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The Other Wise Man
1953
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Omnibus
as King of France
1952
6.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as James Monroe
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
8.6
The First Legion
as Father John Fulton
1951
6.8
Suspense
1949
4.9
Studio One
as McAllister
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Steven Coryat
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Walter Marshall
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3